Hate is a very strong claim. Nothing is perfect but in my experience all of the strong negative reactions were fundamentally attribution error where some combination of culture, limited technical depth, and poor architecture skills created a problem but it was politically appealing to say it was Terraform rather than, say, not reading a plan before destroying resources or building something far more complicated than the business needed.

In every case, the same people made the same mistakes with other tools. A common trait was that they [incorrectly] thought they were rock star developers and boring details like how their code actually runs were beneath them so they wasted huge amounts of time on deep module structures (or with CDK, elaborate TypeScript hierarchies) but resisted learning how the AWS resources they used actually worked.